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The Bedrock of Christianity: The Unalterable Facts of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can we all agree on some things about Jesus, regardless of our belief—or unbelief? Perhaps surprisingly, there is a lot upon which all scholars can agree. When surveying historical scholarship, there are certain truths about Jesus that Christians, agnostics, and skeptics must affirm. In The Bedrock of Christianity, Justin Bass shows how—regardless of one’s feelings about Christianity—there lies...

be no doubt, historically, that some of Jesus’ followers came to believe he was raised from the dead—no doubt whatsoever. This is how Christianity started.”185 We discussed in the last chapter the threefold innovative claims of the earliest Christians concerning Jesus. There I argued that the ultimate reason for this pure innovation must have been that the early Christians believed these resurrection appearances happened. We know that with certainty. Yet whether Jesus really did rise from the dead
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